Sentence examples for being prescribed the wrong from inspiring English sources

Hunt has also pointed out that patients are dying because they are being prescribed the wrong drug – with errors found in almost one in 12 hospitals' prescriptions.

Being prescribed the wrong medication also contributed the severity of her condition, Osbourne said. . "The medication is a nightmare, because there are so many different medications to take, and it's what fits your chemical makeup," she said.

A survey of 377 elderly patients at Yale-New Haven Hospital, published this year in The Journal of General Internal Medicine, discovered that 81 percent of the patients either didn't understand what all their prescriptions were for; were prescribed the wrong drug or the wrong dose; were taken off a drug they needed, or never picked up a new prescription.

When I first went to the doctor I was prescribed the wrong treatment, which made the condition much worse.

On another occasion, a prisoner was prescribed the wrong medication – even though it clearly stated on his file that he was allergic.

On another occasion, a prisoner was prescribed the wrong medication even though it clearly stated on his file that he was allergic.

However, some women with a UTI are not prescribed antibiotics or are prescribed the wrong antibiotics, while many women who do not have a microbiologically confirmed UTI are prescribed antibiotics.

19 If there are too many options in a drop-down drug list, for example, or they are counterintuitively arranged, patients may be prescribed the wrong drug or dose through a 'pick list error'.

"We know that gonorrhoea is resistant to quite a lot of antibiotics and does develop resistance quite rapidly to new antibiotics as well," said lead author Dr Gwenda Hughes from PHE. "The problem is obviously that if people are prescribing the wrong antibiotics, the patient won't be effectively treated.

Because it's prescribing the wrong medicine.

While United have made it clear they reject any suggestion that the wrong treatment was prescribed, the statement did not touch upon Hargreaves's claims that he had been selected for his comeback match against Wolverhampton Wanderers last November despite telling the United that he was injured.